KANSAS CITY, MO — The beautiful Great Spangled Fritillary Butterfly gets its stamp of approval and takes flight on postage today from the nation’s Post Offices as ...

On a recent trip to Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area to photograph birds, I wasn’t having much luck, so I shot pictures of butterflies. This is a great spangled fritillary that was moving between ...

A large, orange-ish colored butterfly began staying around our garden a few days ago. At first glance, I thought it was a monarch since a few of them have been around for the past week or so. Looking ...

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It was an hour into the 2021 Butterfly Count Saturday at Chester Woods Park and the underdog great spangled fritillaries had jumped into an unexpected lead over the usually favored monarchs. Then two ...

Butterflies have been with us for months, from March on. With the longer and warmer days of early spring, the hibernating anglewing butterflies emerge and take wing, often on clear, mild, March days.

OLIVE TOWNSHIP -- Kenneth Knight netted the Great Spangled Fritillary butterfly off its milkweed plant perch, examining it closely before setting it free. It was the day's first sighting of the winged ...

Against glowing snowballs and creamy cones of Annabelle and oakleaf hydrangeas, a merry parade of day lilies frolics through the garden, cups held high to be filled with refreshing rain, twirling in ...

CHASKA, Minn. — Alan Branhagen is a butterfly expert, in addition to the operations director at the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. LAURA: So Alan, when we are talking host plants for ...